United States Ex Rel Knauff v. Shaughnessy

Knauff (plaintiff), who had worked for the Royal Air Force and then the U.S. War Department, married a U.S. citizen Army veteran in Germany with command approval, but was excluded and detained upon attempting to enter the U.S. in 1948 after the Attorney General adopted a recommendation for her permanent exclusion without a hearing; she sought habeas relief under the War Brides Act, and the lower courts dismissed her petition.